I finally saw the Takashi Murakami exhibit at the Brooklyn Musuem. Most people are probably know (or don’t know) Murakami for his work with Louis Vutton–multi-colored LV logoed bags and wallets– or his collaborations with Kanye West–album art, music video direction. Here’s a nice blurb by Marc Jacobs about Murakami. I didn’t know much about his work but the aspect that I found most fascinating was that his works each take hundreds if not thousands of laborious hours to create.

For example, Gero Tan may look like some sort of crazy sketch that someone threw together in Illustrator, it’s actually an enormous painting that took thousands of man-hours to concept and generate.